Muhammad Youssef al-Najjar

Muhammad Youssef al-Najjar (1930-10 April 1973) was a Fatah leader and a member of the Black September Organization (BSO), two Palestinian terrorist groups.

Biography
Muhammad Youssef al-Najjar was born in 1930 in Yibna near Ramla, Mandatory Palestine, United Kingdom (present-day Israel). He joined the Fatah organization in the late 1950s and formed similar groups in Qatar. Taking command of Fatah's military wing, he was appointed to the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1968. In 1972 he was involved with the Munich Massacre in West Germany in which 11 Israeli athletes and coaches were killed by the Black September Organization (BSO). In Operation Wrath of God in 1973, Israel raided Lebanon, and al-Najjar and his wife were killed in their bedroom when IDF troops stormed their apartment in Beirut.